Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Email received May 19, 2014


Helllloooo!

We had a pretty good week. This week we spent a lot of time on our bikes. Having a car is great and all, but you don't come across too many people that you can invite. One day we decided to ride our bikes around and just talk to everyone. In about 5 hours we made 37 invites. It was awesome. The most I have had so far on my mission was 22 and that seemed unbeatable haha. Well we invited 37 people in one day, and got rejected every single time haha. But, what was cool is that when you do all that you can to talk to and invite everyone, even if they reject you, you feel like a true missionary, which was a great feeling. :)

We were able to find 2 potential investigators this week through our finding efforts. So that's awesome. The most exciting thing that happened this week was with a part member family. Their names are Anthony & Lexi. Lexi is a member but hasn't been active for a really long time but is now coming back to church. She is dating Anthony and they are thinking about getting married. Well, we have recently begun to teach Anthony. I met him my first day here in the Woodlands and the lesson was interesting. He hadn't read out of the Book of Mormon and had some doubts about it. He enjoyed his first time at church, however, the lesson in elders quorum kind of confused him. We were able to resolve his questions. This week when we went over there, we didn't really know what to expect. Well, the lesson went really well. We read 2 nephi 31 and he really enjoyed it. He said the more he reads it the more he likes it and thinks that it's true. He pointed out that he loves how it goes side by side with the Bible. We ended up extending a soft baptismal commitment ("When you find out these things are true will you be baptized by someone holding the priesthood"). Usually there is some silence as people think about the question but right after I finished the question he immediately said "Absolutely". It was awesome. haha. He is a really cool guy. He is super buff and is trying to walk on in the NFL. He played in college but had to quit to take care of his daughter.

On Saturday Elder Hillebrant came with us on an exchange. AP's often go on exchanges with Zone Leaders. Elder Neville is a zone leader and for the day it was all 3 of us. It was a blast. We talked to a lot of people and found a potential.

Saturday evening we volunteered at the Iron Man that was being held in the Woodlands. WHY WOULD PEOPLE AGREE TO DO THAT? Who created the Iron Man and why do they hate humanity? haha jk.. but seriously. The participants started at 7 am with a 2.4 mile swim. After that they had a 120 mile bike ride, and then a 26 mile run. The participants have til midnight to finsih. The station where we volunteered was at mile 15 of the run. 95 % of these people looked like straight up zombies. We felt so bad for them. haha. It was a great experience though. There was over 2,000 people in the race and people all over by the course cheering them on. It was a really neat experience. There were 2 members in our area who did it and both finished. Not only that, but they were at stake conference the next day. Crazy stuff. We had our badges on and a lot of the runners recognized us and would say hi to us. A lot of runners were members. Some would say things such as "Elders! The book is blue!" Then people in the crowd would stare at us like we were crazy or like we just murdered their first born child. Both of the members in our ward finished in just over 13 hours. The first place winner finished in 8 hours and won $75,000. Iron Man's are really cool, I would not mind watching another one. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me :(. Anyway, sorry if all that was boring. I hope you all have a great week!
Love you!

Elder Steed




 Elder Harris, my MTC comp. Miss this fool.

 There's a lot of snakes here. It's crazy.





 Elder Hillebrant caught a lizard!

 


He's special.

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